--I've realized that I basically use my profile for free
association and rants, at this point. Blame it on me never getting
a livejournal and enjoy,

Howdy!

Let's do that whole Meyers Briggsy thingy. I've spent the last 4
years trying to change from an INTP into an ENFP, but I've never
had the tests tell me I have a strong preference towards any
attribute. It's more accurate to call me an outgoing extrovert.
What this means is that I'm always down for a new experience, and
I'm usually pretty good at keeping the conversation going until I
run out of steam and need to retreat into the corner with
headphones. It's done me well as of late, as I'm meeting more
people, having more fun, and making more memories. Sadly, I meet
most new people in my group through large house parties. While I
enjoy the stir, I find that I can never actually get to know anyone
any better in that context, due to how many directions my attention
gets pulled at once, and how quickly my extrovert reserves get
depleted.

I have a strangely well rounded set of media production skills,
from photography (published!), to video editing (was paid for it!),
to audio mixing and engineering (just straight up passion!), so I'm
always coming up with wacky ideas about new projects that I'm never
following though on. I know I don't have the energy to tackle these
projects on my own, so I'm saving them for when I have partners in
crime (actively working on it).

I'm a feminist, but whenever I get into an in depth conversation
about it, I am reminded how far I have to go to 'get it'...http://i.imgur.com/EJi0rvO.jpg

Dancing, singing, reading, eating, and traveling. I've just settled
into a new job that's turning out to be slightly more strict in
it's scheduling, but that just makes me more interested in making
good use of what time I have. I'm studying for the GMAT in
preparation for applying to business school. I'm trying to learn
how to start and run a company, since true freedom in a capitalist
society can only be attained through either self-employment or
dropping out, and you can't help fix society without interacting
with it.

In terms of things I love doing, I've been going to too many
concerts and club nights and having a damn good time dancing. I've
been in an electronic rut for the last few years (or should I say I
fell into a Trap? GET IT? HAHAHAHAHAHA), so I'm hoping to find some
new indie-esque bands to listen to. Know any good ones?
As a hobby, I make music. I don't think anything will come of it,
but I do it for myself, so I usually hide it from people. However,
strangers are basically no one until I get to know them, so fuck
it: www.soundcloud.com/dapht

I love dressing up for things. Costumes are fun, especially when I
can scavenge what I need from around the house. Even better is any
chance to get dressed to the nines, especially when it'd be
unexpected or inappropriate.

Identifying song titles in under 3 seconds, usually just by the
timbre of the kick and snare.
Driving.
Magic The Gathering.
Computer repair.
Making small talk.
Explaining horribly complicated things in easily understandable
terms using metaphors.
Off the cuff quips and puns.
Typing while maintaining eye contact and a conversation.
Leading the group at the expense of my own personal agenda.
Under reporting my credentials and abilities.

Food:
Sushi, Pho, steak, molecular gastronomy, Italian...etc.
As long as it is freshly prepared, and delicious. Double points if
it's healthy! Wine pairings are fun too. I'm less for cooked
seafood, but I'll try anything twice.

TV:
Archer, Firefly, Daily Show, Colbert (Ask me about my trip to the
Rally!), @Midnight, Star Trek, Sherlock, How I Met Your Mother,
Battlestar Galactica, That Mitchell and Webb Look, The Mighty
Boosh, Full Metal Alchemist, Twin Peaks, FLCL, Gurren Lagann,
Cowboy Bebop, Torchwood, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Adventure
Time, QI, Broadchurch, The Strain, Rick and Morty... Not really TV,
but if you dig the shit out of PBS's YouTube series Idea Channel,
we'll wind up being excellent friends, after the work and time has
been put into it.

Movies:
Cloud Atlas, Memento, Interstella 5555, Indiana Jones, Star Wars,
Birdman. I go through these so quickly I can't keep very many in my
memory. My Dad used to run a home theater business, so I've seen a
fair share of cinema.

Music:
Mostly Indie-rock and house, but I seriously enjoy every flavor. I
try to keep up with whatever is new and excellent. Daft Punk is and
always will be my favorite band. Every year I donate to KEXP and
c89.5. Gotta keep local radio alive! It's so worth it!
Hot Chip, Bonobo, Four Tet, Fleet Foxes (saw em at the Vera
Project, wut wut!), RAC, Flume, Radiohead, Royksopp, AYB Force,
Moderat, LCD Soundsystem (Shut Up and Play the Hits was fantastic,
if you like LCD and haven't seen it yet...), Sylvan Esso, First Aid
Kit, The War on Drugs, Odesza, Run The Jewels, Shearwater (hot
damn, I've listened to the whole Animal Life album about twice a
day for going on two weeks now...1/5/15), Gesaffelstein, Fourplay,
BBC recordings of Beethoven symphonies, The Crusaders, and
Mingus.

Music's been huge for me. My main hobby these days is producing my
own music. If I go without music for too long, my mood inexplicably
plummets. It's also the quickest way to get me out of a funk. Or
into a funk, if you're Bootsy Collins.

Books:
Right now I'm burning through Anathem at an amazing rate. I think
it's going to wind up being my favorite book! Other than
that...
S. (Ship of Theseus), Redwall, Shadow of the Wind, anything by
Palahniuk, RPG sourcebooks, Wise Man's Fear, Tales of the Black
Company, Dune, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Game of
Thrones, The Kingkiller Chronicles, Foucault (although that's more
of a masochistic endeavor. I try to read one book of Philosophy a
year just to keep that mindset practiced), The Art of War, Sandman,
DMZ, The Massive, the latest run of Hawkeye, Ultimate Marvel
Universe, From Hell, Ode to Kirihito, Transmetropolitan,
Cryptonomicon, The Good American. I recently severely downsized my
book collection due to the ever-shrinking size of my room as I move
closer to the urban core of the city, and that bothers me in a real
way.

Music, strange hypotheticals, word play, hilarious worst case
scenarios.
10 second comedy sketches.
Jokes that use two or more languages for the punchline.
How the hell I'm going to decorate my tiny ass room, and why I
should put any effort into it considering how little time I spend
in there.
Elaborate pranks to pull on my lovely roommates (they said that the
job I did of tin-foiling their beds after vacation was a work of
art. Made me feel warm and fuzzy inside).
How frequently my state of being can be compared to Don Henley
songs, and how dirty that makes me feel.
Track lists for the next mix or playlist I'm brewing.
How to set up a reason to cook something elaborate without raising
the stakes high enough that people will get angry if it turns out
poorly.
If I should type any given statement out using colloquial jargon
and spelling conventions or a nigh-impenetrable assembly of
exceedingly precise verbiage.
How frequently my state of being can be compared to Garth Brooks
songs, and how dirty that makes me feel.
Whether anyone reads this, or if I'm just spouting text into the
wind.

Where that pair of headphones that's slightly better in this
situation have gotten to. Seriously. I have 4 pairs in sight, but I
can't find my running Klipsches. THIS IS A DISASTER.
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I know my profile is already unnecessarily verbose, but I just want
to put this quote from redditor Diabolico in here, because
it...spoke to me. Or I was too drunk when I was editing this,
whatever. Worst case I'll delete it later. But think:

Truth be told - we still believe in magic, just different magic -
just different things we think we know without knowing how. Have
you seen a 4-year-old walk up to a TV that isn't on and try to
touch the screen to wake it up? Have you seen a kid pick up
literally any square object and try to talk to it?
Have you ever tried to help someone understand why it is easy to
get their phone to automatically tag their photo with their
location, but impossible to get it to tag their photo by whether or
not it is a picture of a bird?
Why can't I take a pill to get over this cold? Hey, this vitamin C
totally helped me get over this cold! Hey, you shouldn't eat
unnatural food, it's full of toxins (not pathogens, not viruses,
not cyanide - toxins).
Magic is often just the over-application of understood systems to
areas of reality where they do not apply.

OKCupid is telling me that the people I should be courting are
polyandrous pansexual vegan burlesque performers, so as long as
you're down with dating someone who at first glance appears to be
the god-damn poster child of the patriarchy you're trying to smash,
try me. I'm a sleeper agent in the ranks of the oppressor.

...you're okay with having a conversation with someone who
periodically is compelled to say the worst thing he can think of in
response to a question for sheer shock value.

...you need a friend to snark through a house party with.

...you know of an up and coming artist who you want to share with
someone new.